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1  The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
2  All these things he pictured in his books, and because he was a man of genius he forced the world to hear him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
3  Some had books to read and cards to play, with candles to burn by night, but Jurgis was all alone in darkness and silence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
4  Lloyd told all the truth about the Standard Oil Company in his Wealth versus Commonwealth; and the book was allowed to die, and you hardly ever hear of it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
5  The buyer would nod or drop his whip, and that would mean a bargain; and he would note it in his little book, along with hundreds of others he had made that morning.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
6  The children, who were at school, and learning fast, would teach him a few; and a friend loaned him a little book that had some in it, and Ona would read them to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
7  Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  He was a studious man, reserved, and nothing of an orator; but he always had a pile of books under his desk in the hotel, and articles from his pen were beginning to attract attention in the party press.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
9  The room that Jurgis saw was half lined with books, and upon the walls were many pictures, dimly visible in the soft, yellow light; it was a cold, rainy night, so a log fire was crackling in the open hearth.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
10  Generally it is the custom for the speech at a veselija to be taken out of one of the books and learned by heart; but in his youthful days Dede Antanas used to be a scholar, and really make up all the love letters of his friends.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
11  It published a weekly in English, and one each in Bohemian and German; also there was a monthly published in Chicago, and a cooperative publishing house, that issued a million and a half of Socialist books and pamphlets every year.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
12  In the national capital it had power to prevent inspection of its product, and to falsify government reports; it violated the rebate laws, and when an investigation was threatened it burned its books and sent its criminal agents out of the country.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29